IDNO

P.99727.VH

Description

“Magiti, Waikava, 1876.” [von Hügel's annotation] [The Namosi locality given in the large later caption is incorrect].

F.H. Dufty photograph of preparations for a magiti or feast at Waikava, Fawn Harbour, east of Savusavu on the south coast of Vanualevu, where the bosevakaturaga or council of chiefs was summoned by Sir Arthur Gordon, the governor, in November 1876.
The offering here is baked pigs, which have been cooked, gutted but otherwise whole, in the lovo, or pit ovens. Good examples of Christian men’s everyday dress of the time.
See P.87524 and P.99728.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; South Vanua Levu; Waikava; Fawn HArbour

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

November 1876

Collection Name

von Hügel Collection

Source

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.99725.VH to P.99758.VH were in the belted folder now numbered C539/1/. This was formerly kept in paper archive Large Box G; VH1/4/5. It has now been transferred to the photo archive. The lists describing the contents of this box have been returned to the Paper Archive.

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 26/11/2011]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [A Nadin, 10/9/2003]